Men’s magazine Maxim under fire after list of ‘unsexiest’ women resurfaces with shocking first place

The early 2000s were a different time – and a Maxim article from 2007 listing the ‘unsexiest’ women has ruffled some feathers after it resurfaced and went viral.

The men’s magazine, which is known for featuring scantily clad celebrities, released the list nearly two decades ago.

Entitled ‘Unsexiest Women Alive,’ the list contained five female stars and a brief description for each one explaining the reasoning behind their placement on the list.

The unfortunate list was recently shared in a recent Reddit post, leaving many users horrified over who was chosen. 

First on the list was Sarah Jessica Parker, with the magazine claiming she was the ‘least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women’  who ironically starred in a show with the word “sex” in the title, as per a Today article published at the time.

‘How the hell did this [horse] Barbaro-faced broad manage to be the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women and still star on a show with “sex” in the title?’ read Sarah Jessica’s description, per news.com.au.

Second on the list was Amy Winehouse, who died four years later, in 2011. 

The site mentioned ‘hemorrhaging translucent skin, a rat’s nest mane, and lashes that look more like surgically attached bats,’ as to what landed her on the least sexy list.

Third was Grey’s Anatomy actress Sandra Oh, with the outlet citing her ‘cold bedside manner and boyish figure.’ 

Fourth on the list was legendary pop star Madonna, with her ‘self-righteous bellyaching and rapid postnuptial deterioration’ listed as reasons why.

‘Combine a Paris Hilton-like pet accessorizing fetish only for dirt-poor foreign babies with a mug that looks Euro-sealed to her skull, and you’ve got Willem Dafoe with hot flashes,’ Maxim Magazine said, as per Stuff.

Number five was Britney Spears, with Maxim listing her messy private life, weight gain, and her ‘losing the ability to perform’ as what landed her there.

The magazine slammed her for ‘filling chicken-grease-stained sweatpants on the cover of every trashy tabloid and gossip blog on the Internet’ and having ‘gained two kids, two useless ex-husbands, and about 23 pounds of Funyun pudge,’ according to Pajiba. 

The article was slammed at the time for it’s cruel list, with many outlets reporting on it.

The list appeared to be made as a joke in conjunction their Hot 100 list, which is dedicated to the ‘sexiest’ women of that year. 

In 2007, the top spots on their Hot 100 list went to Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, and Christina Aguilera. 

The ‘unsexiest’ list has now come under fire again after it resurfaced on Reddit thread, with stunned users rushing to the comment section to share their thoughts.

‘Sarah Jessica Parker has always had an amazing bod, a gorgeous smile, amazing hair, and those hypnotizing eyes,’ declared one user.

‘She was the freaking Lead in that show, and the whole franchise has her at the core. She is a bombshell hottie.’

‘It seems that with SJP, Madonna, and Britney, they’re punishing women who used their sex appeal to build their own profiles in ways that centered their own experience,’ another observed. 

‘Then had the audacity to age, not cater to the male gaze, or gain like five pounds. Amy Winehouse also was not super traditionally feminine.

‘Other than that, this list is just random gorgeous women. It’s early days of men lashing out about not being centered.’

‘This is a “let’s pick five famously beautiful women to take down a peg” list. It’s a pathetic ego trip,’ slammed another.

‘[Sandra Oh] on the list because of “her cold bedside manner” – I don’t know how to break it to this writer but [her Grey’s Anatomy character] Cristina Yang is not a real person,’ mocked someone else.

‘I hate to be all “kids today” but they truly don’t understand the level of misogyny that women and girls were exposed to in the 2000s,’ another shared. 

Sarah Jessica had spoken about how much the article upset her at the time, calling it ‘brutal.’

‘Am I really the unsexiest woman in the world?’ she said in an interview with Grazia magazine. ‘Wow! It’s kind of shocking.’

‘It’s so brutal in a way, so filled with rage and anger,’ she added. 

Maxim has removed the article from its website, and went on to name the Sex And The City star as its ‘unexpected crush’ in 2008.